Method and system for evaluating compliance of standard clinical guidelines in medical treatments

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a method and system for evaluating compliance of standard clinical guidelines in medical treatments of one or more patients. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) of the patients are received and aggregated to obtain patient-specific EHRs. Subsequently, the patients are clustered into groups based on disease conditions and socio-demographic characteristics of patients. Further, deviations in the medical treatments provided to the patients are detected by comparing the medical treatments with standard clinical guidelines, for evaluating compliance of the standard clinical guidelines with the medical treatments. In an embodiment, the method of present disclosure helps in detecting care gaps among the medical treatments provided to the patients, and thereby helps in providing improvised and/or patient-specific medical assistance to the patients. Also, the present method is effective in recommending specific amendments and/or improvements to the standard clinical guidelines by detecting nature of deviations in the medical treatments given to the patients.

1 . A method for evaluating compliance of standard clinical guidelines in medical treatments of one or more patients, the method comprising:
 receiving, by a health management system, one or more Electronic Health Records (EHRs) related to the one or more patients from one or more data sources;   aggregating, by the health management system, the one or more EHRs, corresponding to each of the one or more patients, into one or more patient-specific EHRs;   clustering, by the health management system, each of the one or more patients into one or more patient groups based on similarity in disease conditions and socio-demographic characteristics stored in each of the one or more patient-specific EHRs;   detecting, by the health management system, deviations in one or more medical treatments of the one or more patients, based on comparison of each of the one or more medical treatments, provided to each of the one or more patients in each of the one or more patient groups, with one or more standard clinical guidelines associated with each of the one or more patient groups; and   evaluating, by the health management system, compliance of the one or more standard clinical guidelines in the one or more medical treatments of the one or more patients based on the deviations, thus detected.   
     
     
         2 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the one or more EHRs are received at predetermined regular intervals. 
     
     
         3 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the one or more EHRs comprises information related to medical history of the one or more patients, along with the disease conditions and the socio-demographic characteristics of the one or more patients. 
     
     
         4 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein aggregating the one or more EHRs further comprises normalizing information in each of the one or more EHRs. 
     
     
         5 . The method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein evaluating the compliance of the one or more standard clinical guidelines in the one or more medical treatments further comprises classifying the deviations in the one or more medical treatments as at least one of positive deviations and negative deviations. 
     
     
         6 . The method as claimed in  claim 5 , wherein the deviations in the one or more medical treatments are classified as the positive deviations when post-treatment health condition of the one or more patients is improved than pre-treatment health condition of the one or more patients. 
     
     
         7 . The method as claimed in  claim 5 , wherein the deviations in the one or more medical treatments are classified as the negative deviations when post-treatment health condition of the one or more patients is deteriorated than pre-treatment health condition of the one or more patients. 
     
     
         8 . The method as claimed in  claim 1  further comprises recommending the one or more medical treatments, resulting in positive deviations, to one or more practitioners for upgrading the one or more standard clinical guidelines. 
     
     
         9 . The method as claimed in  claim 1  further comprises notifying the one or more medical treatments, resulting in negative deviations, to one or more practitioners or care takers associated with the one or more patients. 
     
     
         10 . The method as claimed in  claim 1  further comprises hierarchically grouping each of the one or more patients into one or more sub-groups based on the deviations in the one or more medical treatments of the one or more patients, for analyzing significance of the deviations with respect to the socio-demographic characteristics of the one or more patients. 
     
     
         11 . A health management system for evaluating compliance of standard clinical guidelines in medical treatments of one or more patients, the health management system comprising:
 a processor;   a memory, communicatively coupled to the processor, wherein the memory stores processor-executable instructions, which on execution, cause the processor to:   receive one or more Electronic Health Records (EHRs) related to the one or more patients from one or more data sources;   aggregate the one or more EHRs, corresponding to each of the one or more patients, into one or more patient-specific EHRs;   cluster each of the one or more patients into one or more patient groups based on similarity in disease conditions and socio-demographic characteristics stored in each of the one or more patient-specific EHRs;   detect deviations in one or more medical treatments of the one or more patients, based on comparison of each of the one or more medical treatments, provided to each of the one or more patients in each of the one or more patient groups, with one or more standard clinical guidelines associated with each of the one or more patient groups; and   evaluate compliance of the one or more standard clinical guidelines in the one or more medical treatments of the one or more patients based on the deviations, thus detected.   
     
     
         12 . The health management system as claimed in  claim 11 , wherein the processor is configured to receive the one or more EHRs at predetermined regular intervals. 
     
     
         13 . The health management system as claimed in  claim 11 , wherein the one or more EHRs comprises information related to medical history of the one or more patients, along with the disease conditions and the socio-demographic characteristics of the one or more patients. 
     
     
         14 . The health management system as claimed in  claim 11 , wherein the processor is configured to normalize information in each of the one or more EHRs during aggregation of the one or more EHRs. 
     
     
         15 . The health management system as claimed in  claim 11 , wherein the processor is further configured to classify the deviations in the one or more medical treatments as at least one of positive deviations and negative deviations, to evaluate the compliance of the one or more standard clinical guidelines in the one or more medical treatments. 
     
     
         16 . The health management system as claimed in  claim 15 , wherein the processor classifies the deviations in the one or more medical treatments as positive deviations when post-treatment health condition of the one or more patients is improved than pre-treatment health condition of the one or more patients. 
     
     
         17 . The health management system as claimed in  claim 15 , wherein the processor classifies the deviations in the one or more medical treatments as the negative deviations when post-treatment health condition of the one or more patients is deteriorated than pre-treatment health condition of the one or more patients. 
     
     
         18 . The health management system as claimed in  claim 11  , wherein the processor is further configured to recommend the one or more medical treatments, resulting in positive deviations, to one or more practitioners to upgrade the one or more standard clinical guidelines. 
     
     
         19 . The health management system as claimed in  claim 11 , wherein the processor is further configured to notify the one or more medical treatments, resulting in negative deviations, to one or more practitioners or care takers associated with the one or more patients. 
     
     
         20 . The health management system as claimed in  claim 11 , wherein the processor is further configured to hierarchically group each of the one or more patients into one or more sub-groups based on the deviations in the one or more medical treatments of the one or more patients, to analyze significance of the deviations with respect to the socio-demographic characteristics of the one or more patients.